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Okay, for the record, I used to wear an earring...but that was a long time ago. Fortunately, at our corporate headquarters office in Armonk where I worked for three years, I never got into an elevator with Lou Gerstner while wearing the earring. I have a funny feeling he might have looked at me askew. As in "Pick up the elevator phone to call security" askew. Even though I was nicely dressed most of the time, and clearly wasn't a bicycle messenger who somehow misread the delivery slip and ended up in southern Westchester County instead of 590... [More]

Microsoft launched a new marketing campaign today in which it poses the question "Are your people ready?" CEO Steve Ballmer has been on CNBC (and the Web) covering all the bases, explaining that "people make the difference" and posing the question: "Is your business people ready?" Their team put together a really nice Web site for the announcement, with the requisite spiffy new intellectual capital, including a white paper, a Webcast, some case studies, links to their partner programs, and other materials that help support their message. It... [More]

Despite the terrible news that cyberpunk visionary writer Bruce Sterling (whose yearly state-of-the-(cyber)world recap has become an annual rite at SXSW Interactive) delivered upfront in his keynote talk last evening: That he would NOT, in fact, be hosting the annual post-conference party at his Austin residence....overall this years' SXSW conference was mostly enlightening, if sometimes frustrating. Enlightening in that it was great to hear about all the news and tidings of the digital Web Two Point Oh! frontier, but frustrating sometimes in... [More]

After two-and-a-half mind numbing (but re-enervating) days hanging with the G4 crowd here at SXSW Interactive in Austin, a few select noteworthy memes seem to be emerging. First, it's all about do-it-yourself-everything. Who needs angel rounds, venture capital, big media, or lots of $500 desks when you can lease a server, charge your nominal expenses on your Amex Blue card, do your development in Romania, and hire your friends to freelance? Said another way, Sand Hill Road is increasingly becoming the road not taken. Could You Please Use Your... [More]

Doc Searls was one of several co-authors of the original blogging and "market as conversation" tome, The Cluetrain Manifesto, and is blogging from O'Reilly's eTech conference in San Diego this week. Once again, I have a mole on the ground -- and this just as I myself get ready to launch headlong into a weekend of feeding my brain at SXSW Interactive in Austin (I spoke on a panel at SXSW way back in 2000 -- just before the bubble burst but while there was still plenty o' dot com fun to be had...and was so impressed with Austin that I decided to... [More]

Why do we make things that people can't use without their having a PhD? According to a Reuters story, a recent thesis from a student at the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands indicated that half of all malfunctioning products that consumers return to stores are in full working order. The problem? They could never figure out how to operate the devices. By way of example, the study indicated that the average US consumer will struggle for 20 minutes to get a device working before giving up. (Me, I'll give it 10 minutes max.)... [More]

Well, once again, the Oscars have come and gone, and while "Crash" may have been the surprise of the evening for "Best Picture" category, to my mind it was the homage to Robert Altman that made the entire evening worthwhile. I've long been a big fan of Altman's films, and for anyone who knows the unique, improvisational style in which his movies are made, the Lily Tomlin/Meryl Streep head-nodding rap to his unique filmmaking style was priceless and spot on. Though Altman has never been a big Hollywood player -- in fact, I always viewed his... [More]

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." Niccolo Machiavelli (1532) The changes, they are a comin'. If you haven't yet seen any of the coverage of our Business Consulting Services group's "Global CEO Study 2006," the results were announced earlier this week, and they provide some very revealing views into the current outlook from CEOs and other business leaders from around the globe. Based on interviews... [More]

Feel out of the next generation Internet loop? Dazed and confused by all those new new thangs sprouting up across the Web Two Point Oh landscape? I sympathize...I follow this stuff as closely as I can and as my schedule allows (refer to previous post about multitasking), and my head is still spinning like a Turbo Bobblehead. A person could spend all day just trying to keep up! CNN's Money.Com/Business 2.0 team has done some VA (value-adding) in this area. While it's hype-ladenly billed -- (Sound the Trumpets).... "The Next Net 25" ...(Could... [More]

I don't need any help with watching more television. I watch way too much of it as it is. But being a big proponent of time-shifting and creating a more intelligent interlock and filtering mechanism between digital cable and the Web, I couldn't help but mention "MeeVee" which I recently stumbled across. MeeVee positions itself as a TV search company (think Google for cable), and just announced today a second round infusion of VC cash to keep its TV listings up to date. Their 30 second elevator pitch goes something like this: They're the... [More]